Improvement in hand hay-rakes



D. J: S'TARRETT. Hand Hay-Rake.

No. 201,365. .Patented March l9, I878.

ILPETERS, PNOTO-LITNQGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID J. STARRETT, OF THOMASTON, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND HAY-RAKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,365, dated March19, 1878; application filed August 17, 1877.

' To all whom it may concern:

' plan from the under side.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawings denote thesame parts.

This invention is an improvement upon the ordinary hand hay-rake andconsists in a new mode of constructing and applying the teeth,substantially as I will now proceed to set forth.

In the drawings, a is the rake-head, and h the handle. t t are metalteeth, constructed in the form of short staples, the legs of which areat such distance apart that when the teeth are inserted in therake-head, the distance from one staple to another will be substantiallyequal to the distance between the two legs of any one staple, therebyspacing all the teeth properly for their work.

The points of the teeth may be sharpened and driven into therake-head,'or they may pass entirely through and be bentdown on the backof the rake-head to secure them thereto.

The bows b b are of metal. They are secured to the handle by means ofwire staples w, or

other equivalent fastening, and to the head, preferably, by passingtheir ends through it and bending them against its front side, as shown.Extending in a straight line from the staples to the points ofattachment to the head, they brace the latter more firmly, while theyare strcn ger and cheaper than the old-fashioned wooden bows.

This construction of the teeth and bows is one which greatly reduces themachinery necessary for the manufacture of hand-rakes, andcorrespondingly cheapens their cost.

The rakes have been thoroughly tried by actual work in the field, andhave given the most satisfactory results.

While the peculiar form of teeth herein described is especially adaptedto hand-rakes, it is, obviously, also applicable to horse hayrakes,harrows, and to other devices employing teeth for raking purposes.

I claim as my invention A hay-rake having metal teeth, constructed inthe form of staples, the space between the two legs of each staple beingsubstantially the same as the space between two proximate staples.

D. J. STARRETT.

Witnesses:

J. O. LEVEMALER, S. P. SWETT.

